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Learn Azure Administration - Second Edition

You're reading from  Learn Azure Administration - Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Dec 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837636112
Pages 346 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Kamil Mrzygłód Kamil Mrzygłód
Profile icon Kamil Mrzygłód

Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1:Introduction to Azure for Azure Administrators
2. Chapter 1: Azure Fundamentals 3. Chapter 2: Basics of Infrastructure as Code 4. Part 2: Networking for Azure Administrator
5. Chapter 3: Understanding Azure Virtual Networks 6. Chapter 4: Exploring Azure Load Balancer 7. Part 3: Administration of Azure Virtual Machines
8. Chapter 5: Provisioning Azure Virtual Machines 9. Chapter 6: Configuring Virtual Machine Extensions 10. Chapter 7: Configuring Backups 11. Chapter 8: Configuring and Managing Disks 12. Part 4: Azure Storage for Administrators
13. Chapter 9: Configuring Blob Storage 14. Chapter 10: Azure Files and Azure File Sync 15. Chapter 11: Azure Storage Security and Additional Tooling 16. Part 5: Governance and Monitoring
17. Chapter 12: Using Azure Policy 18. Chapter 13: Azure Monitor and Alerts 19. Chapter 14: Azure Log Analytics 20. Chapter 15: Exploring Network Watcher 21. Index 22. Other Books You May Enjoy

Managing Azure Files (File Service)

Azure Files (often called File Service or File Storage) is a managed solution that’s part of Azure Storage. While Blob Storage, as described in Chapter 9, enables us to store various files, configure their life cycles, and replicate them accordingly, Azure Files is meant as an enterprise-grade file share solution that can be integrated with the end user machine as a replacement for on-premises shares. Such an approach allows you to simplify infrastructure setup and lower the cost of operations as you no longer need to manage infrastructure yourself.

Let’s start our journey with Azure Files by describing possible access protocols.

Available access protocols

As Azure Files is a cloud-based file share, to be useful as a replacement for on-premises components, it needs to support a similar set of common protocols that are used in file-sharing scenarios. For now, this service supports the following access methods:

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